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afterdeck: Part of a deck extending abaft the midship portion of a vessel.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

Brandt-Snedecor: a name sometimes given to one of the formulae for calculating X2 from a 2xn table
Category: Statistics

codec: a chip which combines analogue-to-digital conversion(coding)and digital-o-analogue conversion(decoding)
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

codec: an assembly comprising an encoder and a decoder in the same equipment.This device produces a coded output from an analog output,and vice versa
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

critical-incident-decision: a critical-incident study analysing only decision situations
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

DEC: device for translating telecommunication signals into plain language
Category: Defense

decade: a group of ten items; for example, a group of ten storage locations
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

decade: interval consisting of ten consecutive years sometimes used in the study of meteorological elements.
Category: The cosmos

decade: destroys four decades of microbes by gram of antibiotic cream.
Category: Medicine

decalage: the angle between the chord of the upper plane of a biplane and that of the lower plane in a section parallel to the plane of symmetry
Category: Physics

decalage: the angle between the chord of the upper plane of a biplane and that of the lower plane in a section parallel to the plane of symmetry
Category: Transport

decalcification: removal of calcium carbonate from the soil by leaching.Technically,replacement of monovalent metallic ions,such as sodium,by hydrogen ions
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

decalcomania: to transfer a picture or text from a paper onto another substrate
Category: Printing and publishing

decametric: the frequencies in the frequency range 3 to 30 Megahertz(MHz)
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decanning: the removal of the envelope of a fuel element
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

decanter: a special glass bottle,usually glass-stoppered,used for serving wine that has been removed from it`s original container
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

decanting: drawing off from the lees without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

decanting: operation of pouring clear wine from one container to another so as not to entrain the deposit
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

decapitate: a negative binomial distribution from which the zero class is missing
Category: Mathematics

decapitated: a negative binomial distribution from which the zero class is missing
Category: Mathematics

decarburization: decarburization is the reduction of carbon in the surface layer of metal under the effect of an external medium at sufficiently high temperature. This reduction may be partial, which is referred to as partial decarburization or almost total, which is referred to as total decarburization. the two types together are referred to as decarburization ( or complete decarburization )
Category: Iron and steel industries

decarburize: remove wholly or partly the carbon content of a metal bath
Category: Iron and steel industries

decay: the decrease in stored information not caused by erasing or writing
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decay: a term in the activation function of a neural net,that leads to a decrease of activation of a unit if there is no activating input
Category: General

decay: Decomposition of wood by fungi and other micro-organisms,resulting in changes of texture and colour.
Category: Botany and zoology

decay: process,not wholly understood,whereby property(building and land)declines in appearance and structural stability,and the surrounding area suffers social degeneration
Category: General

decay: gradual reduction in the magnitude of a quantity, as of current, magnetic flux, a stored charge, or phosphorescence.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decaying: also provides a reservoir of minerals which are released continuously by decay organisms.
Category: Environment

Decca: a group of three or four transmitting stations in a Decca Navigator system
Category: News-systems and communications

Decca: distributed arrangement of fixed phase-locked,continuous wave transmitters operating on harmonically related frequencies,and the special receiving and display equipment carried on a mobile craft whereby the latter can determine its position.The system depends for its operation on phase-comparison of signals from the transmitters brought to a common comparison frequency within the receiver.The master station also initiates timed switching of transmissions when required
Category: News-systems and communications

Decca: system for determining the position of an aircraft by means of waves transmitted from several ground stations and a receiver in the aircraft
Category: News-systems and communications

decelerating: that part of the force at the periphery required to decelerate the masses of the train both in longitudinal and in rotary movement(BTM)
Category: Transport

decelerating: an electrode used to decrease the velocity of electrons or ions
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

deceleration: the time required for a moving medium to stop moving, from the instant at which the stopping action is initiated until the instant at which the medium stops; for example the time required for a moving magnetic tape to come to a halt
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

deceleration: the decrease in speed per unit time caused by all forces acting on the vehicle,particularly brakes.One common unit of measure is metres per second squared(m/s2)
Category: Physics

decelerometer: an instrument for measuring the rate of change of speed of a moving vehicle during deceleration(BTM)
Category: Standards, measures and testing

decency: concept adopted by the Committee of Experts of the European Social Charter(Council of Europe)which demands that wages should not fall below 68% of the national average wage
Category: International organisations

decennial: a liability insurance for contractors, architects and consulting engineers; it covers both liability for accidents on the grounds while constructing and subsequent liability for collapse or defects for up to 10 years
Category: Insurance

decent: properley dressed (Mother`s voice asked if I were --. 'Pyjamas,' I replied.)
Category: Language and literature

decentralisation: a method of business organisation whereby units of the business representing separate products, common functions...are given a large measure of autonomy.
Category: Economics

decentralise: any automatic switching system in which different sets of control functions are assigned to different units
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decentralised: any automatic switching system in which different sets of control functions are assigned to different units
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decentralization: the distribution of administrative powers which have been concentrated in a single centre (1); the movement of people, jobs and activities from the centre or core of major metropolitan areas to suburban and outlying locations within their daily urban system (2)
Category: Building industry

decentralization: in the industrial relations context, term referring to the trend consisting in a more away from collective bargaining at industry level towards local bargaining at company level
Category: Medicine

decentralization: the systematic and consistent delegation of authority to the levels where the work is performed.
Category: Economics

decentralized: a system having several leading parts the changes in which do not necessarily change the state of the whole system
Category: General

decentralized: a computer network,where some of the network control functions are distributed over several network nodes
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

decentralized: the system of signalling between exchanges in a data network,in which call control signals related to a particular data circuit are transmitted over that circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

decentralized: a control system in which the data-processing capability is situated at more than one location
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

decentralized: the housing of data by individual subdivisions of an organization or at each geographical location of the parts of an organization
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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